Q&A: Gender Segregation, How Far Should it Go? | Dr. Shabir Ally

A viewer asks "How far should gender segregation be taken in Islam, and how would this look in practice?" Dr. Ally answers.

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[hirry.p]

I was thinking of this recently and was going to send in a Q! Thank you all!

[SirPax]

Very good answer 😄 May Allah give Aisha and Dr. Ally and the rest of the crew behind camera many many rewards

[ethioramble]

Please do a longer video about this...

[Wisdomseeker]

I would have appreciated more insight on work, school, weddings, markets, dawats or invitations to dinners etc..

[Salaheddine]

Hey! this was my question. I love how you take all question asked serious. Jazak Allahu Khayran. The answer was a bit vague and no clear examples were given but that is because of the time available I imagine.

[upintheclouds]

Alsalamu alaykum. I’d like to read more about the hadeeth mentioned at 1:45. Does anyone know the citation?

[hirry.p]

I thought this was a good answer. In this day and age, you will interact with those of the opposite sex, but it is important to be guarded ad maintain a sense of dignity and humility by not crossing the line. How do you know it's crossing the line? If it feels wrong to you, it is.
I'm curious as to whether gender segregation at weddings is appropriate? Families I know feel very strongly about this.

[abdelrahmanelsayedmorsey]

Salam. Thanks for all your efforts. The answer seem to be very limited in scope and short. It misses the famous hadith about when the male and female are alone in a place then the shaytan is the third. So the prohibition of khulwa is there. Then we have an environment where there are many who don't wear hijab and we have the Quranic injunction of lowering the gaze. So crossing the line is not just by going to adultery, but by looking beyond what was deemed out of control. Then the touching aspect also there is hadith against it.

[RobenArjen]

Gender segregation has been taken out of context.

[mahammedhassan]

Name a gender segregated society that doesn't have rampant homosexuality and pedastry. Definitely extreme segregation is unislamic.

[AH-kyxb]

His answer is very theoretical. He forgot to mention that Allah clearly states in the Quran (I'm speaking from memory). Donot even GO NEAR ZINA. So does Dr. Ally expect to have a society where men and women will mix freely and they are expected to keep within their limits. By having free mixing u are opening the doorway leading to Zina. Men don't have an on/off switch in them when it comes to sexual desires., i.e. I will turn it off when I am at the workplace, and then turn it back on when I am back home. What about unmarried men. I find scholars living in the West try to have a very liberal meaning of the Quran and hadiths just to facilitate their circumstances in the West. They fail to realize that Allah expects you take on hardships when it comes to sticking to your religion. And on what basis is he stating that generations after the Prophet misinterpreted his teachings and wrongly attributed sayings to him. He forgets the hadith(again from memory) which speaks of the first generation of Muslims being stronger than the next and so forth. So that generation of Muslims which according to him wrongly attributed sayings to the Prophet were anyway better than us.